When does AI become a spending suck?
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4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Companies are using AI tools more every day. Some, like Meta, are even encouraging employees to use as many AI tokens as possible. But companies also spending more to access the technology — most AI firms bill per token, and those costs add up. In this episode, there’s no such thing as free AI. Plus: Procter & Gamble posts strong earnings, Kai visits LA’s first women’s sports bar, and we discuss the latest Federal Reserve news.
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| 0:56.4 | Today, this one is the 24th of April. Good It is always to have you along, everybody. We have seven minutes at the top of the program today to talk about the week gone by, and I got to tell you, I am not sure it is going to be enough. |
| 1:08.0 | Catherine Rampel is at MS now, also at the bulwark. David Gora is at Bloomberg. |
| 1:28.7 | Hey, you two. Hey, Kai. Hey, Kai. Catherine, you get to go first. The news of the day, of course, in our wheelhouse, as it were, is that the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Piro, is dropping, and you can't see me, but that's in air quotes. the investigation into the Fed and Chair Powell. I guess I wonder, first of all, what you make of that? |
| 1:34.2 | Well, it seems like the White House is White House slash DOJ. I know that they're supposed to be |
| 1:39.5 | independent from each other, but it seems like all of the above have recognized that they are getting in their |
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